Improvement in water-wheels



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN R. ROYER, OF EPHRATA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,958, dated March16, 1875; application led February 9, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, REUBEN R. ROYER, of Ephrata, in the county ofLancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Water-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a Waterwheel casing, whereby a reversible doubleliumed chute isobtained, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, Figure l is a top view. Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detailviews, of a device embodying my invention.

My water-wheel casing is made of three principal parts-a top fiume, A, abottom flume, B, and a center curb, O. The flumes A andB are castexactly alike, each having at one end a iiange, a, extending around thesame, and at the same end an interior ange, I). The middle part, chutes,or curb C is lcast of two annular rings, with triangularconnectingpieces set at an angle, and without any guides. D D representthe guides, which are bolted to the chutes or curb C, as shown, formingwaterways ina direct course on the wheels. The ilumes A B are connectedtogether by bolts d, through the exterior lianges a a, securing thechutes C, with guide D between them,

forming a casing with two umes, both alike, which may be adapted to anywheel running either to the right or left, because both ends are alike.In the bottom flume the .bridgetree E is secured, and on the top flumethe lid G is fastened. The casing may be reversed any time, to suit theaction of the wheel. The curb C is constructed with its guides so thatit suits both ways, to be put in between the two iiumes. housings, H H,in each of which Work a rackbar, h, and pinion i, the two pinions beingsecured on a shaft, f, running across the lid, and operated by ahand-Wheel at one end. The lower ends of the rack-bars 7L are fastenedto a ring-gate, I, which opens and closes between the wheel and chutes.'

I am aware that a rin g-gate is not new, and I do not, therefore, claimsuch as my inven tion.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A reversible-flumed casing for Waterwheels, as herein set forth.

2. The combination of the chutes or curb C, with guides D D, and thehanged tluines A and B, made exactly alike, to form a reversible casingfor waterwheels, as herein set forth.

3. The combination, with a water-wheel casing, of the lid G, housings HH, gate I, rack-bars h h, and shaft f, with pinions ti, all constructedsubstantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.A l REUBEN R. ROYER. Witnesses:

FRANK K. ROYER, S. S. VON NIEDA.

0n the lid G are formed two

